Re: Forms carrying values.

Hi there. You could avoid all of that trouble by using session variables. Upon successful login create/register a session variable to let the system know who they are, then on subsequent pages you want protected do a check to see if it exists, if not send them on their merry way. hth Joe :) <Bzdpltd@aol.com> wrote in message news:14a.8b29447.2998f6ae@aol.com... > Hi list, hope someone can help me here. > > I have content management system I have designed. I am still learning php so help here would be appreciated. > > The user logs into the system, and we carry there user name over the pages using a link to each page with the value of their name carried over as follows: ../index.php?name=<?echo("$name")?> > > This works fine for the whole site, except when a user makes changes to a entry. Once they submit adding a new entry or modifying an existing one, the value of : ../index.php?name=My Name ends up being ./index.php?name=My > > It deletes the end of the name of the url, so that when the user clicks the link it does not really know who they are. > > I have used a hidden field to carry the value of the name over the pages, but it does not work on forms. > > I hope this makes some sort of sense. > > If anyone knows of a workaround. > > Thanks > > Barry